IT Project Manager
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :19 years, 2 أشهر
* Implementation of Centralized Pricing Engine on Cloud SAAS environment (which includes 2 modules on MS azure and 1
module on AWS). It is a Central Pricing hub which will integrate with different Internal Bank systems.
* Managed project using Agile management tools e.g. Atlassian JIRA, Confluence.
* Engaged and developed strong relationships with other stakeholder groups including senior executives.
* Analyzed existing business applications and Cloud platform technical requirements to ensure that functional, technical, and application migration changes adhere to global technical and Cloud standards.
* Provided technical recommendations to management to assist with decision-making, in order to achieve performance and
financial goals.
* Defined technical direction and roadmap for Cloud migrations and managed the implementation and technical solutions.
* Facilitated agile tasks, such as sprint planning, regular scrum meetings, end-of-sprint meetings, stakeholder meetings, collaboration meetings, and creating communication plans for the team members.
Leading complete portfolio of projects including budgeting, planning, vendor selection and execution of programs
Implementing project plans within pre-set budgets and deadlines; performing onsite and offsite tasks within a project, including the design, specification & integration of products
Acting as SPOC and Project Manager for executing:
ICashPro (Transaction Banking System) and successfully implementing in Ahli Bank along with migration
New B2B system, designing business case document, coordinating with different internal stakeholders, preparing different project documents and arranging steering committee meeting for regular project update New B2B system / ICashPro
Implementation of Bill Payment Module along with Integration with third Party Platform Tasdeed in our B2B Platform (ICashPro)
Formulating operating budgets to ensure optimum utilization of available funds towards the accomplishment of overall business objectives
Provide regular project updates to PMO
Manage & mitigate project risk and issues
Create & Maintain Budget allocation & utilization for different projects.
Conducting Penetration testing of project applications and ensure they adheres to regulatory & internal compliance requirements.
Managing & conducting regular steering committee meeting & circulating project progress reports (with project stakeholders) between baseline & actual results
Creating & maintaining projects using Microsoft Project
Using Leadership skills to build and develop a high performing project team in order to effectively deliver project results as per the business case
Effectively collaborates and communicates with the stakeholders and ensures customer satisfaction
Providing suggestions related to ICashPro System including introduction of Verifier matrix, Checking Payment & Salary Batch Status (Bank & Customer side), Authority matrix (Module, Currency & Product Wise) and Special exchange Rate inclusion
Defining service standards and guidelines as per global best-practices, governance structures, best practices for software delivery life cycle (SDLC) and documentation that serve as benchmarks for excellent service delivery
Working as SPOC for vendor and coordinating internally with 6 different departments for this project
Execute complex project tasks according to project principles of time, budget and scope
Managing resource planning, technical direction, effort estimation, tracking, risk management & mentoring
Developing high level designs, meeting the prescribed functional & non-functional requirements; ensuring the design is as per company standards and best practices
Leading pre-sales of both the flagship products to various market segments like large corporate, mid markets and SME, financial institutions and ministries
Providing post-implementation, and enhancement support with regard to the product / software application
Leading, mentoring & monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations
Developing competency among the team members; managing appraisal process across the levels; conducting interviews to recruit the right talent and resources
Highlights
Played a major role in implementing:
WPS (Wages Protection System) in the system as per Oman Ministry of Manpower
Integration of B2B System with Conventional core banking system (Eqaution)
Statement engine for bank account statements
Introducing & Implementing Bill Payments module in ICashPro
Led integration of B2B application with Central bank’s ACH System
Led integration of B2B application with Bill Governing authority (Tasdeed) for Bill Payment module
Formulated all the migration scripts for migrating the current portfolio to new system and lead go-live activities
Successfully implemented Transaction Banking System
Successfully Implemented Cheque Clearing system
Engaged in Product development w.r.t digital transformation & automation of Transaction Banking system.
Highlights
Successfully executed iDEALS application (Portfolio management system) in Pension fund, Royal Guard Oman
Conducted cycle include analysis with end users between both the products, training of the application, UAT, smooth go-
live and after-end support of the application as per agreement
Highlights
Implemented Central Bank Reporting System REGPRO at Bank Dhofar
Evaluated:
o Islamic reports in order to map the data from IMAL to regulatory reporting system
o Operational feasibility of reports through evaluation of issues, requirements & proposed solutions
Islamic Core Banking Solutions
Highlights
Successfully executed:
o Various modules of Bank Islami Pakistan, Bank Mouamalat, Malaysia and SARIE at Bank Muscat, KSA including
development & uploading of reports in Power Builder on to the Report Designer System
o Central Bank Reporting Module (FTR), Business Intelligence & Risk Management Dashboards in BankIslami Pakistan
o Fixed Assets Module, Central Bank Reporting (FTR) & BI & BASEL-II Dashboards in Burj Bank Limited
o IMAL* Business Intelligence module in Bank Islami Pakistan, conduct technical training & implement the BI
dashboards on Hyperion
Engaged in migrating fixed assets data from old system to new module
Formulated stored procedures & triggers in different clients on Oracle & Sybase to support their requirements
Played a key role in setting up & parameterizing various Core Banking modules aligned to business requirements; migrated
Trade Finance & Islamic Invest modules and developed scripts for migration support
Created an automated Zakat Routine to deduct zakat for Saving/ Fixed Maturity Accounts on first day of Ramadan
Provided onsite & offsite support for various modules to Pakistani & International clients
• Worked on projects like SYMBOLS (Core Banking Software), E-Connect (E-Banking System), KM (Knowledge Manager - Data ware House), EDGE Financial (Corporate GL), EDGE Manager (Human Resource Management System) and IRIS ATM Controller.
• Designed menu driven backup policy for the DIBL infrastructure using Bourne Shell scripting (RED HAT Linux) and developed Backup & Recovery strategy of database & application.
• Automated Before End of Day Strategy/ After End of Day Strategy including generation of Database (Table, tablespaces & DB level) statistics, Memory & Disk Statistics in the form of text file for management review and strategy for purging audit data.
• Administered database servers with activities encompassing monitoring of disk & memory, database statistics (Tablespaces, tables, users), hardware statistics and tuning of database.
• Maintained backup audit table data (export utility), purged audit data and migrated dump & log files into tapes.
• Implemented Oracle 10G Data Guard for Disaster Recovery of the Core banking systems.
• Ensured smooth switch over of production database switches to disaster recovery site in case of failover of the production site and synchronized data between production database servers of primary Site & Disaster recovery site.
• Developed/ tested new programs, analyzed current programs & processes for cost effectiveness and guided lower level programmers in programming assignments.
• Coordinated with the management pertaining to modifications & amendments requested by business across various systems.
• Liaised with Path Solutions Pvt. Ltd. for implementation of Islamic Core Banking Solution for UBL - Ameen, ABN AMRO Bank, Bank Islami Pakistan Limited.
• Analyzed & routed new business requirements (customization) to software support Centre in Lebanon.
• Migrated data from old core banking system to new application, developed Backup & Recovery strategy of database (Oracle & Sybase) & application and conducted performance tuning of database.
• Integrated IMAL with old Core Banking systems, documented & demonstrated solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments.
• Assisted testers & support personnel in resolution of system issues.
• Coordinated with the management on issues related to programmer productivity and software development management.
• Planned, designed & coordinated development, installation, integration and operation of information systems.
• Conducted training sessions for staff members on performance considerations/ usability issues of software specifications and implementation.
• Analyzed & utilized part & assembly prints, forms, spreadsheets, bills of material, specification sheets and technical references.
• Documented functional specifications detailing the development approach and logic used in application development.
Major Projects:
HR ERP of Pakistan (Human Resource Management System) which covers:
HRIS (Human Resource Information System), Leave Record, Old Staff Loans, New Staff Loans, Payroll, Disciplinary Action,
Increment/Promotions, Security Module
Funds Management Modules which covers:
Monetary Assistance for Bereaved families, Gratuity, Welfare, PF GPF Insurance, Pension & Benevolent
Staff Introduces Depositor
Outsourced Management System - For Contractual employees
Provident Fund Insurance
Golden Hand Shake
Major Projects:
Billing & Collection System
Organization Reporting System
Policy Admin Module
Oracle Data warehousing solution
Software Engineering
Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science